deaths

Dmitry Utkin, Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970)

Historical image related to Dmitry Utkin, Russian army officer, founder of Wagner Group (born 1970) from August 23, 2023

Dmitry Utkin

Russian military officer (1970–2023)

Dmitry Valerievich Utkin was a Russian military officer and mercenary. He served as a special forces officer in the GRU, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the co-founder and military commander of the Russian state-funded Wagner Group, with his military alias…
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Wagner Group

Russian private military company

The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used…
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

August 23

Day of the year

August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 130 days remain until the end of the year.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)